About Highland Health Systems – Anniston
Highland Health Systems is an integrated community focused behavioral health clinic serving the counties of Calhoun and Cleburne in Alabama. They provide services in three locations within Anniston in Calhoun County including this facility at East 8th Street. They provide accessible, cost effective and high quality outpatient addiction recovery for individuals impacted by substance use disorder. They also support individuals dealing with co-occurring disorders. They serve adults and adolescents in recovery and even support folks involved with the criminal justice system.
This outpatient facility is situated close to US Highway 431 and Quintard Avenue with easy access to downtown Anniston and the nearby city of Oxford. It is about three miles east of the popular Coldwater Mountain Bike Trail and five miles west of Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge. East Alabama Regional Transit provides local bus service that can potentially get you to the location.
The facility offers goal-oriented outcome based addiction recovery that helps community residents overcome unhealthy substance use issues. What’s particularly cool is that you can access substance use recovery alongside primary care in one conducive outpatient setting.
They offer priority treatment to pregnant IV and non-IV substance users, non-pregnant IV substance users, women with dependent children and HIV-positive substance users. You’ll be admitted for intake assessment and screening ASAP if you fall among these categories.
You can receive various levels of outpatient care depending on your assessed needs. They offer day treatment which is the most structured and intense outpatient care for people with severe substance use issues who don’t want to undergo residential therapy. They also provide intensive outpatient and general outpatient care for folks with moderate to mild addictive behavior.
Outpatient care in this facility involves individual and group therapy sessions alongside psychoeducational classes. You’ll get to learn about the disease of addiction and its cycle, stages of recovery and warning signs of relapse. You’ll also learn healthy communication, managing anger and stress and other healthy coping tools that help prevent relapse. They also offer family therapy to improve relationships, create positive family dynamics and strengthen your support network.
The facility offers various services to support individuals involved with criminal justice systems. They provide DUI Level I and Level II programs for individuals mandated by the court or seeking to fulfill legal requirements for license reinstatement. They also offer Adult Drug Court which is a diversion program for people charged with substance use-related offenses. Family Drug Court is available as well for families involved with DHR due to substance use-related issues. This program helps such families regain or maintain child custody. Other services include Driver Education Programs.